Archive for the 'Recipes' Category




December 21st, 2008

Mexican Wedding Cookie is one of my favorite sweets at the nice bakery downstairs. The other day, the head pastry chef, Ian, held a baking class there and I signed up. I was glad to see that one of the desserts he showed us how to make was just that! It is also called Russian […]

December 21st, 2008

我是参照私房小菜上盈盈的方子做的。请点链接看原帖。 I followed the Chinese recipe online by  盈_盈. Dry ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup cornmeal 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp yeast Wet ingredients:  1 cup milk 1/3 cup butter (semi melted) 1/3 vegetable oil (I used olive oil) 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 […]

January 30th, 2008

I have not made this. This is a post by 素不相识 from the Cooking Forum (私房小菜) that I visit regularly. My friend Debby would like to make these mini squashes, so I needed to translate for her since the English recipe she got using Google Translation was “hilariously bad” (her word). With the author’s permission, […]